Dave Bautista in Talks To Play Kratos in God of War - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.04.26

**Tim Gettys** (0:00)
Today's gaming news stories include Dave Bautista is in talks to play Kratos, Fire Emblem, Fortune's Weave, Direct Details, and Beast of Reincarnation. Reviews are in, we'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up and welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 Of course, I'm your host Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by the master of hype, Snowbike Mike. How you doing?

**Mike Minotti** (0:31)
Tim Gettys, I'm fantastic because I get to see your face to kickstart the day. I love it, man.

**Tim Gettys** (0:35)
Me and you on back to back shows. We're on Games Daily. We're about to be on Gamescast. Talk about my favorite thing. We just did an amazing Halo stream on Friday.

**Mike Minotti** (0:43)
Halo on Gamescast. Fire Emblem, Fortune's Weave. Yeah. Here on the podcast on Kinda Funny Games Daily. It's a killer day.

**Tim Gettys** (0:50)
It's a killer day. Lots to talk about, including Kinda Funny Games Showdown. I don't want to spoil anything.
But your episode of our Who Wants to Be a Millionaire knockoff, Insert Coin to Continue, went up yesterday, and everyone needs to watch it.

**Mike Minotti** (1:04)
Everyone needs to watch it.

**Tim Gettys** (1:06)
I rewatched it. I was here live when it happened, but I watched it and first off, shout to Bless and Raj for killing it, making the show look so damn good. I will never forgive you for your sins.

**Mike Minotti** (1:19)
Tune in to find out what I do.

**Tim Gettys** (1:20)
You commit to it. Even afterwards, you're like, Oh, yeah, didn't even know.

**Mike Minotti** (1:24)
I had a plan, Tim. I had a plan. I stuck to it.

**Tim Gettys** (1:27)
Y'all need to watch to find out what I'm talking about. Because Mike, you, the way that your brain works needs to be studied.

**Mike Minotti** (1:33)
You know, Tim, you're giving it to me. Just like last night, I got it from Gary Witta. Yeah, Gary Witta got on the phone with me and he gave me about an hour long. Gary Witta ran. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was bad at me.

**Tim Gettys** (1:43)
Oh, but can you talk about what?

**Mike Minotti** (1:44)
Oh, yeah, because I didn't respond. Well, he wrote how many dudes and I wrote Gary. This game is great. And he wrote Godi. I didn't respond past Godi.
Oh, he called you. He got bad. He called me out on me.

**Tim Gettys** (1:55)
That sounds like Gary.

**Mike Minotti** (1:56)
That sounds like Tim Gettys. Just to give a little taste, last night I kicked on Shadow of the Colossus for the first time.

**Tim Gettys** (2:04)
No, Tim, I love you, Tim.

**Mike Minotti** (2:08)
This game rocks, bro.

**Tim Gettys** (2:09)
Yeah, it does.

**Mike Minotti** (2:10)
Tim, I'm playing the PS4 version.
I love the PS4. Okay. Let me tell you what. This kid doesn't know how to swim. But man, I got up in this bird cage. And it was flooded. And I crawled and I swam and I swam. And I crawled up on top of this rock. And I looked at the bird and I was like, ooh, ooh, ah, ah, I'm like trying to come, get over to me. And it's not moving. And I drew back my bow and I shot this thing, Tim. And it fucking elevated off the perch. And it started soaring at me. And I'm going, this is the craziest video game I've ever played. And Tim, I promise you, it soared at me like a hawk looking at a gopher. And I jumped at the last moment and I grabbed a hold of its fur. And next thing I know, I'm on top of its wings. And we're flying around the avium. And I'm like, ah, it's the greatest game ever.

**Tim Gettys** (2:57)
In the same way that you were shocked that they were making games like Ocarina of Time in 1998, how wild is it? Shadow of the Claw says it is a PS2 game from 2005

**Mike Minotti** (3:06)
Are we not making more of these?

**Tim Gettys** (3:07)
And the remake is very faithful.

**Mike Minotti** (3:09)
It's so good, Tim.

**Tim Gettys** (3:10)
It's what a experience that game is. I can't imagine being you playing all the 3D Zeldas back to back, playing Celeste, playing Shadow of the Claw, Fire Emblem, Three Houses. You were on such a tear.

**Mike Minotti** (3:24)
I'm on a journey, Tim.

**Tim Gettys** (3:25)
Oh my God.

**Mike Minotti** (3:26)
This is like Zelda. It's so much like Zelda. You open up, it's a guy on a horse. He's holding something underneath a blanket. Epic music, beautiful world. You're like, oh, man, what's going on? It's like, oh, man, dead wife. You know what I mean? Dead wife, dude. Thieves and dead wife. It's like, you got to get her soul back. How do you get the soul back? You got to defeat all of these 16 monsters behind you.